This is old Antonio is when Ultima comes to live with his family.
What is "almost 7"?
100
This is the illness that Antonio contracted after seeing Narciso murdered.
What is pneumonia?
100
This animal symbolizes the connection between all religion, sacred and pagan. Antonio struggles between belief in this animal and the beliefs he was taught by the Church.
What is the Golden Carp?
100
This character says, "You know I am your friend, I want to help you hombre... Hey, Lupito, you remember just a few years ago, before you went to the war..."
Who is Narciso?
100
This word means, "having a strong smell or a powerfully sharp or bitter taste."
What is pungent?
200
A curandera, this character knows Antonio's destiny, and trains him to find connection with both sides of his family.
Who is Ultima?
200
Tenorio accuses Ultima of this.
What is witchcraft?
200
This family, like the sea, had a hard time staying in one place for too long. They were vaqueros, and moved over the land and sea to find their destinies.
What are the Marez?
200
This character says, "What do you want, bruja?!"
Who is Tenorio?
200
This word means, "a real or pretended display of courage or boldness."
What is bravado?
300
These characters are represented by giants in Antonio's dreams, come home from war, only to leave again, crushing Gabriel's dreams of moving the family to California.
Who are Antonio's brothers?
Andrew
Leon
Eugene
300
This is what happened when the boys finally ran to tell Florence about the Golden Carp.
What is he had drowned?
300
This symbolic animal represents the spirit of Ultima and watches over Antonio as he grows up. It blinds Tenorio, but he gets his revenge and shoots it.
What is Ultima's owl?
300
Lupito's death begins Antonio's fascination with this, which washes away all blood/sins/sadness.
What is the river?
300
This word means, "to rebuke somebody mildly but earnestly."
What is admonish?
400
This character's definition of sin is losing one's innocence and "becoming a man".
Who is Maria?
400
Antonio was positive that this event would help him to understand his dreams and questions about God.
What is his first communion?
400
This clan, which was 'silent like the moon', tended the farmlands of El Puerto and found connection to the earth they farmed.
What is the Lunas?
400
This is what Cico told Antonio about God/gods.
What is there are many gods - of beauty, magic, garden, backyard?
400
This word means, "an indication that something, often something unpleasant, is going to happen."
What is portent?
500
Describe the curse on the Tellez family.
What is dishes/utensils crashing and falling, stones falling from the sky?
500
This is the reason why Antonio thought a burial mass for Ultima was not necessary.
What is she was buried with the owl; they were just ceremony?
500
This figure, which Maria prays to often, symbolizes the merging of cultures and religions - particularly the merging of native Latino and Catholic traditions.
What is the Virgin of Guadalupe?
500
This character says, "I swear, Tony, the music was pulling me into the dark waters below. The only thing that saved me from plunging into the lake was the golden carp."
Who is Cico?
500
This word means, "serenely beautiful, untroubled, and happy."